Upvoted: Reddit says it now gets 1.4B native video views per month and serves 13M+ hours of video monthly, up 38% since the beginning of 2018 — Community highlights, best-of’s and the top trends for the year ahead — This time of year, there are recaps and best-ofs a-plenty … Reddit says it now gets
Read MoreMozilla hopes for a new browser beachhead on laptops using phone processor tech. Firefox coming to Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered PCs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHBO isn’t giving anything away in the 39-second teaser, but we’ll take it. Game of Thrones final season teaser is hot, hot, hot — and cold as ice – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEmil Protalinski / VentureBeat: WordPress.org launches WordPress 5.0, introducing a block-based editor to offer more streamlined editing, as well as a Classic Editor plugin — WordPress.org today launched WordPress 5.0, which brings “big upgrades to the editor” in the blog management tool. WordPress.org launches WordPress 5.0, introducing a block-based editor to offer more streamlined editing,
Read MoreUPDATED: Free and cheap personal and small business cloud storage is everywhere. Here’s how to decide which one is right for you. What's the best cloud storage for you? Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreScott Adam Gordon / Android Authority: Verizon is rolling out support for RCS, an upgraded version of SMS, for Google Pixel 3 phones on its network — Update, December 6 at 3:40 p.m. ET: It looks like RCS support is now rolling out to the Verizon Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. Verizon published
Read MoreWant to stop plateauing at a 1-to-1 KDR? We asked some of the game’s top players to teach us some of their tricks for multiplayer and Blackout. Call of Duty pros provide Black Ops 4 tips for multiplayer, ‘Blackout’ Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: A look at a proposed US national privacy law, backed by 200 retailers, banks, and tech companies, that would create universal data collection rules and more — Ctrl N — A broad coalition of more than 200 retailers, banks and technology companies is releasing new recommendations … A look at
Read MoreCIMON, an AI-powered robot developed by IBM and Airbus, recently acted perfectly normal during interactions with human crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A slew of journalists don’t agree with that assessment, but we’ll let you decide. When a crew member tried to ask it to do stuff it got confused, misinterpreted certain voice
Read MoreYouTube today released the 2018 edition of Rewind, its Year-in-Review performance art piece, in which it acknowledged the major trends on the platform. And no surprise, it was full of references to Fortnite, K-pop, and, of course, Drake. If you’ve checked any of the videos in the Trending tab in the past three or four months,
Read MoreA parts tumbler is a great tool to have around. But if you don’t use it all the time, it’s hard to justify dropping hundreds of dollars on one. Fortunately, there are many ways to make your own tumbler while tailoring it to meet the need. Because really, as long as you get the medium
Read MoreThe Keyword: Google launches a personalized audio news feed on Google Assistant using Google News, rolling out to some users in the US in English — For the past century, radio has been a one-size-fits-all medium. Turn on the radio and you’re dropped into a show at a moment in time … Google launches a
Read MoreThe streaming music giant activates new features for podcasts. Pandora wants to help you find the perfect podcast – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDamien Wilde / 9to5Google: Video sharing app Byte, developed by the creators of Vine, opens creator registrations and plans a spring 2019 launch — Vine may have shut down in 2016, but the popularity of the platform still lives on through many a YouTube Vine compilation. The new Vine 2. known as Byte is set
Read MoreThe new processor is designed specifically for Windows 2-in-1s. Qualcomm aims straight at Intel with 8cx chip, its first 7nm CPU for PCs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRight now it only costs $30. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Battle Edition gives you all the multiplayer fun for less cash – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHere are six ways Qualcomm’s new processor can benefits Android phones in 2019. New Snapdragon 855 chip could give Galaxy S10 portrait videos and double the photos – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx, an “extreme” processor for Windows laptops that it says is the first 7nm chip for a PC platform — Could Qualcomm replace Intel in your next Windows PC? — The “X” stands for “extreme.” That’s what Qualcomm’s marketing department wants you to think about the
Read MoreThe new chip is designed to bring improved performance, connectivity, and battery life to Always-Connected PCs. Qualcomm announces 7nm Snapdragon 8cx for 'extreme' Always-Connected PC performance Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreZack Seward / CoinDesk: Blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys says it is laying off 13% of its staff amid a “re-focusing of priorities”; report estimated its annual burn rate at $100M — ConsenSys, the ethereum production studio, is letting go 13 percent of its staff, according to a company announcement … Blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys says
Read MoreEurorack has taken over the synthesizer community, and hundreds of people are building their own eurorack modules. [Michael Forrest] designed and built his own Eurorack sequencer module that doesn’t use weird things like capacitors and chips to store a signal. Instead, he’s doing it with stepper motors and some clever engineering. The basic idea of
Read MoreEmil Protalinski / VentureBeat: As part of Microsoft’s embrace of Chromium, Edge users will get access to Chrome extensions, and EdgeHTML will be replaced by Blink and Chakra with V8 — Microsoft today embraced Google’s Chromium open source project for Edge development on the desktop. The company also announced Edge … As part of Microsoft's
Read MoreApple’s prices are outpacing not only inflation but also other gadget makers. Yet would switching be worth the cost? Your Apple products are getting more expensive. Here’s how they get away with it. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreAt the very edge of human perception lies our eyes’ ability to perceive a single photon of light. Physicists believe this amazing feat could be a catalyst to illuminate some of our universe’s biggest mysteries. What is the universe made of? Why are we here? One popular theory that addresses both of these questions is called
Read MorePornographic content, which had a large female viewer base on the site, will no longer be allowed. Tumblr’s ‘NSFW’ Bloggers Prepare to Abandon Ship Source: NY Times Tech
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